Taxonomy of an Application Model

Abstract

With the advent of advanced computing systems beyond personal computing, such as mobile computing, cloud computing or recently, vehicular ad-hoc network, it is crucial that we understand the application development process of each type of these systems. Better understanding of how applications are built in different environment allows us to design better application models and system supports for developers. This paper studies the taxonomy of application models and defines its consisting aspects, namely application scope, application abstraction level, application structure, communication model and programming model. With the better understanding of the application models in general, we lay out the requirements for developing a class of large scale connected vehicle applications.